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About Me

Summary:
Proven leadership abilities in international environments with a variety of customers, business systems, and agencies.

Languages:
Fluent in Russian
Good knowledge of German

Location:
United States, Atlanta, GA
Current organization:
AUSA
Gender:
Female
Languages:
German, Russian
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More About Me

I'm passionate about

Helping people and making the world a better place. I'm passionate about dance and fitness, especially CrossFit, and learning, learning new things!

Talk to me about

Breakthrough research and anything that contributes to bettering humanity. I'm very interested in volunteer and work opportunities.

People don't know that I'm good at

I don't know that it is correct to say that I'm good at it, but I love to write, and to learn new things, I feel like I can never get enough of that.

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  • A comment on Conversation: Why do people find the need to entrench themselves in rules and policies?

    Dec 23 2012: Because as a society we have been bred to feel that rules are for the better, that if there were no rules we'd all lose our morality and run amock and do as we please, that we would lose all integrity.
    If you look at it through a bigger picture, it is easier to control any people when you run them down with rules, as they won't have time to question what you are doing.
    In regards, to genetics, I don't know, but when I'm told I shouldn't do something, unless it's bad for the humankind or puts someone's life at risk, it makes me want to do it, just because I don't feel that anyone has a right to tell me what I can or can't or should or should not do. If I am following my moral code, then why in the world can I not do something ?
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    A comment on Conversation: Should we feel gratitude for our life? To whom?

    Dec 23 2012: I don't agree that you have to come from a safe or luxurious place, it could be quite the opposite. I think there are plenty of examples where people are grateful because they feel loved or are in loving environments or experience kindness, has nothing to do with social status......
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    A comment on Conversation: Have you realized your potential?

    Dec 23 2012: I think realizing your full potential is doing something you are passionate about, something you strongly believe in.

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